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A grand jury found three Portland police officers who were involved in the fatal shooting of the Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital gunman in July, shouldn’t face criminal charges. The decision was announced Thursday by the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office. The Portland Police Bureau (PPB) officers searched for PoniaX Kane Calles, 33, for hours on July 22, after Calles reportedly shot security officer Bobby Smallwood outside the hospital’s maternity ward, and injured another security officer..
The Portland City Council has unanimously approved $2.6 million for permanent police body cameras. All 800 uniformed officers are expected to have body-worn cameras by summer.
Just two months after security guards at Legacy Health hospitals were equipped with taser guns, a man was tackled and tased by security guards outside Legacy Emanuel Medical Center in North Portland Tuesday afternoon. Guards also pointed a taser at bystanders who attempted to deescalate the situation. The incident comes less than three months after a fatal shooting of a hospital security guard in July that led Legacy to install metal detectors and start equipping.
Court filings show that a Portland man barricaded himself in the mailroom of a downtown courthouse after he attempted to pose as the director of the Central Intelligence Agency. According to the documents filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon, a security officer first noticed Ryan Frank Bautista-Bonneau ‘loitering’ outside of the Mark O. Hatfield Federal Courthouse around 12:46 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 14.